what scene/idea scares you most?

[MarsDustDoug]

thanks to a post by Enishi in the paranormal movie thread, I thought of what in my mind are some of the greatest horror/thriller ideas.

ill start with just one...

I think that Freddy is probably one of the best ideas ever for scares because one HAS to sleep. this to me was a beyond stellar idea! If one doesnt sleep for prolonged time they will die... if one sleeps (in the nightmare on elm street realm) they die anyway

Edited November 10, 2009 by MarsDustDoug

[Guest Megalicious]

In all seriousness - Killer Clowns from Outer Space. It has mixed my two greatest fears, clowns and a hostile alien race.

[phee]

Good thread sir *bows*

Hmm... most of the stuff that actually frightens me in movies are usually more of the reality slipping away type of thing... not so much in "horror" movies in the traditional sense I find.

Mulholland Drive for example... David Lynch paints such a bizarre mindscape that we are never sure what is real, imagined, supernatural, etc... the same can be said for Lost Highway, and Inland Empire by him

Another PRIME example of this kind of thing was the film Jacobs Ladder....

[jynxxxedangel]

The Tall Man, from Phantasm, scares the shit out of me.

[Lillylu29]

Final Destanation... expecialy the scene in 2 where the water bottle gets caught under the brake petal of the car and the lady cant stop.... lol

[phee]

The Tall Man, from Phantasm, scares the shit out of me.

"It's only a dream."

"NO IT'S NOT"

[jynxxxedangel]

Final Destanation... expecialy the scene in 2 where the water bottle gets caught under the brake petal of the car and the lady cant stop.... lol

That has actually happened to me!!!

*except for the death part.

The moral of the story is, DON'T drive around with a bunch of junk on the floor of your car.

[CalicoKittyKat]

That has actually happened to me!!!

*except for the death part.

The moral of the story is, DON'T drive around with a bunch of junk on the floor of your car.

One of my biggest fears ever! Yet...there are half-filled water bottles all over the floor of my car.

"IT"....frickin' Pennywise. This has caused a life-long fear of clowns. I worked at a haunted house last year, and I was absolutely terrified to go into the clown room all alone. Thank goodness our clown actor's makeup looked NOTHING like Pennywise.

[phee]

I am also a big fan of what is NOT SEEN.

One of the problems with the remake thing going in on is that they now want to CGI everything and splash it all over the screen.

Blair Witch... which I very much liked the first time I saw it did this very well.

But the winners here IMO are the original Alien, and Jaws. I loved the fact that in Alien, the creature was so unknown, only glimpses and parts of the creature were seen that one is more terrified of what it could be. The same goes for Jaws, a thing that lurks below that we only see the fin or shadows of much better then some kind of CGI beast.

[KatRN05]

The part in the Exorcist where Regan did the spider crawl down the stairs.

[Joey Deadcat]

I find the plot for The Screwfly Solution very nightmarish. The thought of a virus of unknown origin infecting the male population of Earth and causing them to violently turn on women everywhere...

A very frightening scenario.

[MarsDustDoug]

The Final Destination stuff is great! The fact that so much of that could happen is just awesomely scary!

Edited November 11, 2009 by MarsDustDoug

[Slogo]

ever seen 1408 or read the book.

That is seriously fucked up

[StormKnight (1)]

Most of the violence and suggestions of violence in Ichi the Killer make me cringe.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

The concepts of Invasion of the Body Snatchers frightens me to the core.

The Blob for some damn reason still freaks my right the fuck out.

Event Horizen is another. Science suddenly and unexpectedly finding proof that there is in fact a hell (by accidently putting living people there) is not the kind of proof of concept people really want.

[StormKnight (1)]

I would have to concur with Event Horizon there, Gaf. Creepy.

[pomba gira]

I find the plot for The Screwfly Solution very nightmarish. The thought of a virus of unknown origin infecting the male population of Earth and causing them to violently turn on women everywhere...

A very frightening scenario.

Yeah, that one was deeply disturbing to me, too... partly because it seemed all too plausible at the time I first read it.

Stuff like the eye-slicing scene in Un Chien Andalou really gets to me... pretty much any eye mutilation. Anything where someone is parasitized and/or eaten from within... They Came From Within is a good example. And there was one b-movie from the '70s with killer earthworms... scenes of worms sticking out of people's faces and waving around *shudder*

[Simon Bar Sinister]

^ that was Squirm, pomba. there was a remake in the works, but it got canned. no idea how far along they were; probably not very.

the last 5 minutes or so of Carnival of Souls still creeps me out big time. so does the '80s version of The Thing.

[StormKnight (1)]

Anything to do with hand mutilation....the opening of Darkman...can't watch it....just can't do it. *cringes*

[MarsDustDoug]

a good slow "something sticking into and eyeballs" scene makes me cringe good.

or in TCM remakes when the kid got tossed up onto the meat hook that made me pucker a bit hehe

oh and on hand mutilation! The remake of House Of Wax... the clipped finger tips were GREAT!

Edited November 16, 2009 by MarsDustDoug

[phee]

a good slow "something sticking into and eyeballs" scene makes me cringe good.

or in TCM remakes when the kid got tossed up onto the meat hook that made me pucker a bit hehe

oh and on hand mutilation! The remake of House Of Wax... the clipped finger tips were GREAT!

ooooh nothing like good prolonged eye trauma! from ZOMBIE:

[MarsDustDoug]

ooooh nothing like good prolonged eye trauma! from ZOMBIE:

yep! thats the one i was thinkin of!

[jynxxxedangel]

The house from "The People Under The Stairs," is really creepy.

[wormsinwombs]

I remember in pulse (japanese version) that this ghost slowly walks down this hallway, but it's in such a strange way like dehydration hallucination. It was really creepy and very unique. Jacobs ladder fast moving things along with my weird sleep habbits made me really jumpy for days. And as a kid things bursting out of my stomach scared me...(the parody of alien from spaceballs scared me for the longest time lol)

[Msterbeau]

I chickened out watching Cloverfield when they were in the subway tunnel...